Homegirls
Subtitle: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs (New Directions in Ethnography)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Blackwell Pub.
Published: December 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780631234906
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Hispanic American Sociology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; North America; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies; Linguistics; Language; Languages; Latin Americans; Teenage girls; Youth
Description: Concentrating on California's largest Latino girl gangs - the Norte and Sur gangs - this text traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles. The book also explores the relationship between language and the body in these gangs.